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Eagles Dream, H6
Eagles Dream, H6
Eyja- og Miklaholtshreppur, Iceland
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Other Projects by Gudmundur Jonsson Arkitektkontor
Eagles Dream, H6
Eyja- og Miklaholtshreppur, Iceland
Project Featured on Dec 02, 2025
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
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Breathtaking scenery in practically all directions, each different from the others, called for different focus towards each of the spectacular views.
In order to preserve the nature, the project is raised on pillars without any groundbreaking, thus creating the fifth facade/elevation. The nature and characteristic rocky ridges flow below, making it possible to pass in nature underneath the house. Establishing the underside (5th elevation), the cladding (Kebony-wood and Alucoil-metal) is carried out underneath the house as well. When passing under, the magnificent surroundings are mirrored in the metal cladding, giving a whole new experience in the relation between a building and nature.
When entering the site first time, an Eagle feather was discovered at the ridge, this giving the idea for the concept. The house being on stilts, free from the ground is an interpretation of an Eagle, just landed, inspecting the landscape, and ready to leave again anytime.
The houses primary gain in the surrounding is that it does not privatize the site or nature, giving all people passing by the opportunity to continue their journey in nature, passing under the house. It is only the load bearing columns and the platform og the house that is made in concrete.
The walls of the building as well as the roof, are carried out in CLT (cross laminated timber). CLT in combination with excessive use of wood is environmentally friendly, as it is renewable and as well CO2-binding, and therefore not contributing to CO2-emissions during production. CLT contributes as well to shorter building time, that is more environmentally friendly. Wood contributes as well to the wellbeing in side the house, as wood acts as regulator of humidity. The wood Kebony Clear is extremely durable, and reduces maintenance costs, as the wood is aging by work of nature, reaching silver gray and endurable patina through the years to come, becoming more and more beautiful and more adapted to the surrounding nature.
The floors and bathroom walls are covered with the Icelandic Bluestone (Blágrýti). The wooden cladding is continued inside the house, giving important continuity, but on the inside made as Veneer cladded Pine, pretreated to match with the Kebony Clear after having reached its gray and even patina in some years.
The corridor, leading to the bedrooms has 4 glazed round floor windows giving contact to the ground when passing by. The long bay-window is emphasizing the contact to the small forrest towards north. The trapeze-forms shaping the library and the kitchen are inspired by the old camera-lenses, catching the view through the trapeze-objective.
Photo: Gunnar Sverrisson
In order to preserve the nature, the project is raised on pillars without any groundbreaking, thus creating the fifth facade/elevation. The nature and characteristic rocky ridges flow below, making it possible to pass in nature underneath the house. Establishing the underside (5th elevation), the cladding (Kebony-wood and Alucoil-metal) is carried out underneath the house as well. When passing under, the magnificent surroundings are mirrored in the metal cladding, giving a whole new experience in the relation between a building and nature.
When entering the site first time, an Eagle feather was discovered at the ridge, this giving the idea for the concept. The house being on stilts, free from the ground is an interpretation of an Eagle, just landed, inspecting the landscape, and ready to leave again anytime.
The houses primary gain in the surrounding is that it does not privatize the site or nature, giving all people passing by the opportunity to continue their journey in nature, passing under the house. It is only the load bearing columns and the platform og the house that is made in concrete.
The walls of the building as well as the roof, are carried out in CLT (cross laminated timber). CLT in combination with excessive use of wood is environmentally friendly, as it is renewable and as well CO2-binding, and therefore not contributing to CO2-emissions during production. CLT contributes as well to shorter building time, that is more environmentally friendly. Wood contributes as well to the wellbeing in side the house, as wood acts as regulator of humidity. The wood Kebony Clear is extremely durable, and reduces maintenance costs, as the wood is aging by work of nature, reaching silver gray and endurable patina through the years to come, becoming more and more beautiful and more adapted to the surrounding nature.
The floors and bathroom walls are covered with the Icelandic Bluestone (Blágrýti). The wooden cladding is continued inside the house, giving important continuity, but on the inside made as Veneer cladded Pine, pretreated to match with the Kebony Clear after having reached its gray and even patina in some years.
The corridor, leading to the bedrooms has 4 glazed round floor windows giving contact to the ground when passing by. The long bay-window is emphasizing the contact to the small forrest towards north. The trapeze-forms shaping the library and the kitchen are inspired by the old camera-lenses, catching the view through the trapeze-objective.
Photo: Gunnar Sverrisson
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